Author Archives: Chris Heisel

Give the readers what they want

Posted on March 9, 2004 by Chris Heisel

OJR has an excellent article by Vin Crosbie that talks about an issue near and dear to my heart: customization… or give the readers what they want. (thanks, Nathan) If newspapers, online and dead-tree alike, are going to move forward … Continue reading →

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CSS spring cleaning?

Posted on March 1, 2004 by Chris Heisel

Barry Parr brings up a very good idea, revisiting and cleaning up your style sheets. I’ve been working on a big project, and as it grew during the development cycle I took a week to clean up and refactor the … Continue reading →

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Praises for the Mac

Posted on March 1, 2004 by Chris Heisel

ZD Net has a good article about PC’s proclivity to crash, and a Mac’s proclivity to not crash. It’s another shot in the ongoing Mac vs. Windows debate. Here’s one of the better nuggests: In my computing life, there’s one … Continue reading →

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Woe, woe is me

Posted on February 24, 2004 by Chris Heisel

I haven’t been charmed by the snake for long, but oh how it’s charmed me. Right now, I’d really, really, really like to have Python’s slice operators in PHP. Once you’ve started using Python, you’ll never want to go back. … Continue reading →

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Countin’ down your favorites

Posted on February 22, 2004 by Chris Heisel

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better… I’m not sure when they rolled it out, but Apple added Billboard’s Hot 100 and Top R&B charts from 1946 to present to the iTunes Music Store. This is a really … Continue reading →